Sent off my LR revision on the 7th, got a nice note back from Kate Seaver. An interesting thought occurred to me, which is that in the past I've always seen the copy-edited MS and had the opportunity to review and revise. Kate mentioned I'd be getting the galleys which is the step after copy-editing. Arghh! What if my baby's been massacred? Well, I'm sure it hasn't. Any way, I have been working on The Spare and have rearranged several chapters and deleted all kinds of boring stuff and replaced it with hopefully less boring stuff. And, and this is the encouraging part, I have got my word count to nearly 64K, which means additions outpaced deletions. Today, I am feeling much more excited about the progress. More guests added, though only one of them has a name right now. I completely ripped out the chapter where SA OW go for a walk around the lake, moved it, took out the one-armed gardener, which reduced it to 3 pages and then had that kind of bull-dog determination where I put those darn two together and voila: 10 pages, plus while I was lying in bed dreading work the next day, I thought of how to end the chapter on a kind of poignant note and that gave me a flash of bigger structure and chemistry. So, today I am feeling quite good about everything.
posted by Carolyn @ 8/19/2002 06:53:00 AM Permalink
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